Trivia / Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

• Dolled-Up Installment: Thank to the massive success of the first film in Soviet Russia, this film was retitled Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds 2.
• Dueling Dubs: the original mono Hong Kong dub from 1993 and a revised stereo dub from the late 1990s, which reuses parts of the old dub but redoes others.
• No Export for You:
  • For some reason this was released to the U.S. after Godzilla vs. Destoroyah in the U.S. Specifically, the VHS tapes of all the Sony-owned Heisei films, including this one, came out in 1998. So did DVDs for all of them excluding this film. It didn't come out on DVD until 2004.
  • The international version of this movie has never turned up on home video anywhere. Sony's uncut blu-ray is technically almost identical content-wise but the opening and end credits are digitally created and the title is presented as Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II rather than just Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Toho's international name for the film.
  • Like the other Heisei films, this is one of the five films in the series to not get sent to the US immediately after release due to the controversy with Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah until 1998, when Sony had the license to produce their own Godzilla film.
• Real-Life Relative: Kazuma Aoki briefly interacts with ESP institute chief Hosono, who is hostile to him. Kazuma was played by Masahiro Takashima and Hosono was played by his father Tadao Takashima.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Ishir⁠ō Honda was to direct the film, making it to be his first Heisei film. Unfortunately, he died earlier in the year.
  • Originally Mechagodzilla's design would have called for it to be a combination mecha of a large ground tank and an aircraft, giving it a different look that still survives in some posters. This aspect was Refitted for Sequel in the case of Mechagodzilla's successor, M.O.G.U.E.R.A. in the following movie.
    • The poster artwork by Orai Noriyoshi was iconic enough that a toy of said Mechagodzilla design was released in 2017. This version splits Mechagodzilla into three components, them being named Naga, Gundalva & Garuda, the former notable for being a Maser Tank, while Garuda takes from the concept art rather than his actual design in the movie.
  • A second concept for Mechagodzilla, dubbed "Berserk", had it start out as a human-built robotic copy of Godzilla before being infected by a computer virus and going, well, berserk; assimilating other machinery to become a grotesque Mechanical Abomination.
  • This concept was reworked in reverse in another draft. There "Berserk" was from outer space and came down in a meteor, assimilating metal and inorganic matter in a quest to copy and replace the dominant species of the planet. After G-Force initially thinks it's trying to go after humanity, it instead assumes the form of a proper Mechagodzilla to attack the real thing.
  • Titanosaurus was going to appear in the movie, but was replaced by Rodan. Rodan, meanwhile, was going to be blue, before the decision was made to give him a coloring scheme akin to his Showa appearance. An early draft of the final film also had Rodan start out as two Pteranodons, with one surviving the attack by Godzilla to become Rodan after being irradiated by a submarine it destroys. A relic of this is present in the film in the form of the Pteranodon skeleton.
  • This was intended to be the final Heisei film with Tristar then taking over with their intended 1994 film. Unfortunately, that movie didn't get around, so Toho got back to work with Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.

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